The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency that called Japanese NASA will provide a new life support system for the International Space Station so Japanese astronauts can continue participating in the orbiting laboratory through 2024.
The expect was 2020, but the researching will be able longer providing the new life support equipment from Russia that is used to purify water and air on the station. And then, JAXA may announce the plan with budget about the system until next year.
Human have to eat something and take water to live. I think it is so difficult thing that cultivate plants and make water can intake in the space there is anything is able to be base to solve.
But, I think keeping trying to elucidate secret about environment of space and pioneer a new and unknown world is great and thankful.
A new discovery makes technology developed, so we can lead our life better than yesterday.
I watched a movie ‘Interstellar’. Humanity has to find a new star to make colony and a new civilization escaping from decreasing materials and worse of air. Astronauts kept studying gravity, science and environment can people live with limited food sailing space.
Astronauts may be terrified about death always. The JAXA’s plan means not only technology development but also support for people who doing risky things for better humanity.